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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rkral who wrote (67803)	8/17/2007 12:11:34 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

I don't see how Qualcomm can bring a WCDMA suit before the Dec '08 option expires. On second thought, legal challenges may be possible after Nokia misses the first royalty payment in the upcoming quarter. I think others have disagreed with me as well. My assumption is that exercizing the option would involve notification of Qualcomm....but perhaps the contract is written in another way. I will say this, Q's public comments seem to indicate that they want to pursue this through arbitration. I guess we'll see if anything changes after the end of September. Slacker

To: rkral who wrote (67803)	8/17/2007 12:12:20 PM
From: sag	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

I don't see how Qualcomm can bring a WCDMA suit before the Dec '08 option expires. On second thought, legal challenges may be possible after Nokia misses the first royalty payment in the upcoming quarter<i/> Since the April 9th license expiration Nokia has been willfully infringing QCOM patents by continuing to sell WCDMA product without a valid license. Reason enough to bring out the big cannons IMHO although this action would clearly conflict with QCOM's arbitration request.